Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOTExamining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
More George Eliot Quotes
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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